In the clean evening, Chen Xiang was bored thinking about Wang Yan in the dormitory. After a while, he recalled Wang Yan's appearance, and for a while, he guessed how Wang Yan would react when he saw him calling her. He never expected that, in fact, Wang Yan at this time had no deeper impression of him.

April and May are the college graduation season, and the catkins in Beijing are scattered arbitrarily. It's late afternoon, and the warm air is mixed with the smell of catkins and plants, and the gentle evening breeze blows in gusts. In the distance, the white lights of the library and classrooms shine through the windows, expanding their not-so-hot glow at will. Everything seems so quiet and stylish. It's a campus vibe.

Wang Yan and her classmate Liu Lanlan were walking along a small road on campus, chatting softly and slowly, and occasionally there was a somewhat reserved laughter characteristic of a girl. Suddenly, Wang Yan's pager vibrated in her big and fat trouser pocket, and she picked up the pager to look at it, and it was Chen Xiang, a fellow villager she had just met, who was calling.

This Chen Xiang is really weird, every time he calls her, he never says anything specific or specific, and he never asks her to call back, just blindly sends some similar life insights, and with a little inspirational words.

Fortunately, Wang Yan studied engineering, but she likes literature, so she is more sensitive to words. Otherwise, if Chen Xiang's behavior is aimed at others, it will most likely be regarded as strange. Wang * often loves to read, and recently he happened to be reading Lu Yao's "Ordinary World", the male protagonist in "Ordinary World" is hardworking, so the content sent to her by Chen Xiang, after she read it, she secretly appreciated it.

Wang Yan is about to graduate, she is constantly looking for a job, participating in various interviews, and she hopes to be able to implement the job before she completely graduates and leaves school in July. After all, she is also from the countryside, and the work still requires her own efforts to find a way to solve it.

On the day she met Chen Xiang, Wang Yan had just returned from an interview with a company. Strange to say, she still remembered Chen Xiang's first impression of him: Chen Xiang was wearing the same dark blue suit as herself that day, but the suit was worn on the thin Chen Xiang, which looked too empty.

Somehow, she felt that Chen Xiang's face was faintly engraved with an indescribable loneliness. That loneliness impressed her more than anything else. In her mind, that lonely face has always been imprinted.

I almost forgot about him. Unbeknownst to her, the man strangely gave her a note, and the front of the note only had her name and mobile phone number. The back is not a blank piece of paper, but the names of some physical instruments. She thought he was also a student. So that day, when she ran to the commissary behind the school to call her family, she called him back when the small note fell from the plastic film in the phone book. After hearing that Chen Xiang was a fellow countryman with her on the phone, she was overflowing with sympathy and wanted to be friends with him, hoping that he would not be so lonely.

"Who called you? It's a boyfriend, do you want to go to the commissary to call back? Liu Lanlan asked jokingly, she knew that Wang Yan didn't have a boyfriend, but Bao Buqi had been talking secretly recently.

"No, no, it's a fellow who never lets me call back. Just send some very literary sentences. Wang Yan hurriedly denied it, as if it was a shame to talk about a boyfriend. In fact, she does have a favorite object in her heart, but that person is not Chen Xiang.

"Really? And such people? Liu Lanlan asked with interest: "I don't want to chase you."

No, no. It's a fellow I met on the bus. Wang Yan explained as if to clear up: "I went to look for a job that day, and I didn't know the way when I came back. When I asked for directions, he helped me tell me how to change trains. Later, he got out of the car early and left me a phone number. ”

Liu Lanlan quipped, "If people don't like you, how can they leave you a phone and keep calling you." ”

Wang Yan has never thought about this, she is self-aware, she is not so beautiful, otherwise no boy would have chased her from elementary school to college. Wang Yan thinks that Chen Xiang is just lonely and wants to have more friends. At this time, Wang Yan really experienced another subtle sweetness.

Wang Yan met a boy named Haitian on the Internet, they are in the same school, and the other party also graduated this year. Their chat was very empty, and they never mentioned specific things, but it was those empty and general words that made her feel a little. She and the boy named Haitian both love words, and occasionally play a game of word battle together. When she took the bus that day, she remembered the chat with Haitian, and she couldn't help but feel happy. Unexpectedly, his face was exposed.

"Why? What do you think? Liu Lanlan asked Wang Yan.

Wang Yan quickly pulled back her fugue thoughts, and said with a smile: "Hehe, I didn't think about anything. ”

As he spoke, the pager vibrated again. Wang Yan thought that Haitian was calling her, but when she opened it, she saw that it was still Chen Xiang who called. The difference is that this time the fellow said something about cannibalism and invited himself to eat at his place on the weekend.

"Who is this? There are a lot of boyfriends! Liu Lanlan deliberately teased Wang Yan.

"No, that's all nonsense. Or Chen Xiang. ”

"Oh, no. I've called you twice like this. also said that it was not a boyfriend. Liu Lanlan reminded with the sensitivity unique to a girl: "This person must be interesting to you." ”

"No, he just asked me if I was free on the weekend and invited me to have dinner at his place. Nothing else. ”

"Ah, I'll send you a message first, and now I'll invite you to dinner, it's nothing." Without waiting for Wang Yan to answer, Liu Lanlan followed up and asked, "What does he do?" ”

Wang Yan said, "I don't know either. According to himself, it seems to be a furniture designer. ”

Liu Lanlan said, "Isn't that right? You asked him to introduce you to a job, don't you happen to stay in Beijing to find a job? ”

Wang Yan never had this idea from beginning to end, and when she heard Liu Lanlan say this, she replied: "I don't understand what they do." Besides, I'm not necessarily in Beijing yet. Let's look for it first. Wang Yan thought that if "Haitian" went to other places, maybe she would also call her to go.

Hearing Wang Yan say this, Liu Lanlan suddenly asked as if she remembered something: "Didn't the one you applied for last time say that you could solve the Beijing hukou?" How's it going? ”

Wang Yan said, "That's what their manager told me, and I passed the retest, but he said that I should wait for their human resources manager to call and notify." ”

Liu Lanlan said, "Then don't wait, take the initiative to call and ask." It's unreliable to wait for a long time. ”

"Hmm," Wang Yan agreed, "Go back, the dormitory will be lights out in a while." The two of them returned the same way and walked in the direction of the dormitory.

Liu Lanlan asked about the interview, Wang Yan felt very hopeful, she felt that the interview felt very good, the manager of the interview was a man in his forties, in good spirits, the day after the first examination, he informed her of the re-examination time. And the manager also told her that her resume and other materials had been submitted to the company's human resources manager, and the human resources department would notify her within two or three days so that she could prepare. But her pager never received the message, and she was worried that it was missed, so she decided to call tomorrow to ask.

The next day, Wang Yan ran to the commissary and called the manager on a public phone. The manager said that he didn't know what was going on either, so let him continue to wait. But later, Wang Yan never received a notice again. Wang Yan knew that this job opportunity was gone. A few years later, Wang Yan recalled this interview, she felt that although the job was not implemented, it was not a vain interview, and she only met Chen Xiang on the way back from that interview.

Maybe life is like this, we are originally going towards a clear goal, but what we gain is often something that we expect. In fact, when Chen Xiang gave Wang Yan a note that day, he didn't dare to think of marrying someone else's girl with a small note. At that time, he was mainly worried that people would not know the way. This may be the so-called "unintentional planting of willows and willows." “